Question

Mountain Teas wants to raise $14.9 million to open a new production facility. The company estimates the issue costs for legal and accounting fees will be $582,000. The underwriters have set the stock price at $27.50 a share and the underwriting spread at 8.15 percent. How many shares of stock must be sold to meet this cash need?

Answer 1

Answer:

612,936 shares

Explanation:

The computation of the number of shares of stock must be sold is shown below:

Before that we have to compute

Required sales proceeds net of spread is

= (Raise amount + estimated cost for  legal and accounting fees) ÷ (1 - spread rate)

= ($14.9 million + $582,000) ÷ (1 - 0.0815)

= ($1,5482,000) ÷ (1 - 0.0815)

= $16,855,743.06

So, shares to be sold is

= $16,855,743.06 ÷ $27.50

= 612,936 shares